Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Landing Zone 1
B1056
Flight #2
83 day turnaround
52nd Falcon recovery attempt
43rd successful Falcon recovery
1st consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery
Mission Details
CRS SpX-18
SpaceX CRS-18, also known as SpX-18, was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station. Dragon was berthed to the station for 31 days before it successfully returned to Earth. 2,290kg of cargo were brought to the station. Among the cargo was the docking adapter IDA-3, which was installed on PMA-3 to allow docking of new Commercial Crew and Cargo vehicles.
This was the third flight for this Dragon Capsule which has previously flown on the CRS-6 and CRS-13 missions. Additionally, a small amount of ceramic heat shield tiles were placed on the edge of Dragon’s heat shield to test them for use on SpaceX’s Starship.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2,312.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
2019
49th orbital launch attempt
SpaceX
82nd mission
9th mission of 2019
76th successful mission
48th consecutive successful mission
Falcon 9
74th mission
7th mission of 2019
71st successful mission
45th consecutive successful mission